Brandywine

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Eight Penn State undergraduate student research teams from five campuses will represent Penn State as the largest Pennsylvania college or university contingent at the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday morning (March 3) in Harrisburg. They will present their research with students from more than 100 Pennsylvania colleges and universities as part of the Undergraduate Research at the Capitol-Pennsylvania event.

The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, known as THON, hauled in a whopping $13,026,653.23. Penn State Brandywine THON contributed a campus record amount. The group of about 50 students shattered their previous record (set last year), raising an astonishing $40,952.11 and ranking No. 7 among all Penn State Commonwealth Campuses.

Penn State Brandywine’s Muslim Student Association is sponsoring Zohra Sarwari, a Muslim author, life and business coach, and international speaker, to lecture at Penn State Brandywine at 11:30 a.m. March 3 in the Main Building 101 about the "‘terrorist" stereotype Muslims have been labeled with worldwide.

Penn State Brandywine and the Delaware County Press Club are offering a free journalism contest to high school students. Winners will be announced at the 2015 Journalism Symposium at 6:30 p.m. March 25 in the Tomezsko Building at Penn State Brandywine.

Human development and family studies major Lauren Lomas, a Schreyer Honors Scholar, is one of the eight Penn State students from across the commonwealth selected to showcase their research in Harrisburg at the 13th annual Undergraduate Research at the Capitol – Pennsylvania conference.

Penn State Brandywine will host its first Common Read event of the 2015 spring semester as Stephen Cimbala, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, discusses "Is the World Going to Hell?” at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11, in Main Building, Room 203.

Whether you just have a class project or lecture to record or enjoy the limelight, the One Button Studio now available in the Vairo Library is a great resource for Penn State Brandywine’s students, faculty and staff.

In a recently published article, Jennifer Zosh, assistant professor of human development and family studies at Penn State Brandywine, and collaborator Lisa Feigenson, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins University, found when infants are given an array of different objects they can remember up to their working memory capacity.